Research

My research is centred around artificial intelligence, in particular the areas of automated planning, knowledge representation and reasoning, and cognitive robotics. I am particularly interested in problems related to epistemic planning, with a focus on reasoning about knowledge and action, especially under conditions of incomplete information and uncertainty involving multiple agents. My work is often applied to multiagent planning and robotics applications, as well as human-robot interaction, social robotics, and natural language dialogue. My recent work has also explored explainable planning and machine learning techniques for learning the symbolic structure of actions and control knowledge for planning.

For more information about my research, please visit my projects, publications, or talks pages. You can also see a word cloud of my publication titles through Scholar Goggler.

Groups

• I am the Director of the Automated Planning Lab in the Department of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University. Most of my PhD students are members of the lab.

• Before moving to Heriot-Watt University, I was a member of the Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation (formerly the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. I was also a member of the (now defunct) Human Communication Research Centre.

• I was the organiser of the (now defunct) Planning & Language Interest Group meetings in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

• I was previously a member of the Cognitive Robotics Group at the University of Toronto.

• Prior to that, I was a member of the Artificial Intelligence Group at the University of Waterloo.